Nintendos New profits postings

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3136865

After posting its first interim loss in decades last year, Nintendo bounced back to profitability in the first half of the current fiscal year. According to the game giant's interim financial report, Nintendo made a net profit of 46.4 billion yen ($451 million) in the six months ending September 30, compared to a loss of 2.9 million yen last year.
Sales actually dropped slightly to 188 billion yen ($1.8 billion), a 12% decrease, but currency fluctuations dealt fewer blows to the value of Nintendo's foreign holdings this time out.

Most of Nintendo's profit came from the domestic market, however. The operating income earned by its Japanese segment -- 47.1 billion yen ($458 million) -- dwarfed those of its North American and European operations -- 2.4 billion yen ($23.3 million) and 1 billion yen ($9.7 million) respectively.

The disparity between regions comes in spite of rising GameCube hardware sales in North America and Europe. Nintendo sold 990,000 GameCubes in North America in the first half of this fiscal year, compared to 550,000 in the same period last year. Game Boy Advance hardware sales dropped in all territories compared to the same period last year, however, from 8.3 million units worldwide to 6.7 million.

For the entire fiscal year ending March 31, Nintendo expects to turn a net profit of 90 billion yen ($875 million) on the strength of its new DS handheld. Supporting that expectation, Nintendo set its worldwide DS sales expectations for the fiscal year to 5 million.

Originally, Nintendo expected to ship 3.5 million units to retailers worldwide by the end of March, before raising the figure to 4 million last month. Now, it forecasts sales of 5 million DS hardware units worldwide by the end of the fiscal year, and some 15 million units of DS software.

I'm not suprised, the DS is a fun sturdy system.

wow

I'm glad you posted this

now I have to mark off my "I don't give a shit" list

thanks!

u gave enought "shit" to take a look and post. So i guess its working.

TonK said:

I'm not suprised, the DS is a fun sturdy system with no games coming out.

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I just wanted to see my post count rise.

That's all well and good, but I'd feel more comfortable if I heard what chimpmeister thinks about Nintendo's current financial and popularity standings.

Actually... I don't, but he's going to post in this thread anyway and it will no doubt contain lots of 'Nintendo Bashing' and stupid "kekeke" emoticons.

wizkid007 said:

u gave enought "shit" to take a look and post. So i guess its working.

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no, you were on my "doing something to elicit an annoying response from wizkid007" list

I heard the DS costs 400 USD to produce per unit.

Mushiki said:

I heard the DS costs 400 USD to produce per unit.

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That seems a little steep especially since sony's PSP seems far more technologically advanced and sony said they will be making a profit on the system right away.

kobylka68 said:

That seems a little steep especially since sony's PSP seems far more technologically advanced and sony said they will be making a profit on the system right away.

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Mushiki was being sarcastic.

KOOSTABA!

Why on earth would I care who is making what money in the game business?

Nintendo Fanboys are always pointing to the "little N's" profits, but why? Are they getting some of this money?

If microsoft lost $20,000 on every launch xbox, I couldn't have been happier. I mean really, please Mr. Giant corporation, please don't give me a deal. I'd rather you charge me MORE than it cost make your gaming machine.

Who wants to get a deal?

Not Nintendo fanboys

BC_Gambit said:

Why on earth would I care who is making what money in the game business?

Nintendo Fanboys are always pointing to the "little N's" profits, but why? Are they getting some of this money?

If microsoft lost $20,000 on every launch xbox, I couldn't have been happier. I mean really, please Mr. Giant corporation, please don't give me a deal. I'd rather you charge me MORE than it cost make your gaming machine.

Who wants to get a deal?

Not Nintendo fanboys

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You have to understand, Fans of nintendo games are always being told 3 things:

1. Nobody Plays Nintendo Products
2. Nintenod Is getting it's ass kicked in the market.
3. Soon Nintendo will stop making systems and just be a 3rd party dev or sell it's markets.

Finnacial reports show that Nintendo is finnancialy stable in a time when publishers are going under. Such reports show that Nintendo will for the forseeable future, be able to produce top tier titles on hardware designed just for that.

BC_Gambit said:

Why on earth would I care who is making what money in the game business?

Nintendo Fanboys are always pointing to the "little N's" profits, but why? Are they getting some of this money?

If microsoft lost $20,000 on every launch xbox, I couldn't have been happier. I mean really, please Mr. Giant corporation, please don't give me a deal. I'd rather you charge me MORE than it cost make your gaming machine.

Who wants to get a deal?

Not Nintendo fanboys

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Hey, you see that smoldering pile of ash that says "Dreamcast" on it with that little orange logo?

BC_Gambit said:

Why on earth would I care who is making what money in the game business?

Nintendo Fanboys are always pointing to the "little N's" profits, but why? Are they getting some of this money?

If microsoft lost $20,000 on every launch xbox, I couldn't have been happier. I mean really, please Mr. Giant corporation, please don't give me a deal. I'd rather you charge me MORE than it cost make your gaming machine.

Who wants to get a deal?

Not Nintendo fanboys

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To keep developing great games a company needs income.

Nintendo create and craft great games that span all age groups,not just pandering to the so called 'mass market' eg idiots who go out in droves and buy crap like The Matrix,The Hulk and the latest overhyped FPS that has you covered in claret by the end of the first level,or shit where the whole idea of a game is to stop someone in their car,drag them out,kill them and then go and do a drug deal! Wow whoop-de-do,those sort of games are played by the immature little tossers who think that games that glorify violence and have loads of bloodshed make a game.Personally I would rather have a game where I just get loads of fun playing it.

Nintendo has its so-called 'fanboys' because they are the people who know that with each generation of Nintendo consoles they will be getting great games that their fans love,without having to resort to games like GTA which without the violence and so on are really,really poor and very shallow games


And as for - " I'd rather you charge me MORE than it cost make your gaming machine. " LOL are you retarded? Nintendo managed to get production costs down and was able to release the Cube at a competitive price at launch that still allowed them to make money on each one sold.Sony,has always made a small profit on their consoles and now they have released the PSTwo as they have managed to shrink all their components right down and make a cheaper model to produce.M$ on the other hand created a behemoth of a machine that to be competitively priced they had to take a loss on,and they are still haemorhaging(sp) money over as no-one is buying the games for it as they are just using it as a rom-box.

And as for being a Ninty fanboy,well I personally think they have made most of the greatest games ever released in the past 20 years of home console gaming and overall have made the greatest contribution to gaming in so many areas.Buit as well as my cube,sfc,nes and gameboys I have pc engines,geo,saturn,ps2 and others because first and foremost I'm a gamer and I buy the machines with the best games.

norton9478 said:

3. Soon Nintendo will stop making systems and just be a 3rd party dev or sell it's markets.

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LMAO

Seriously, though, some of us actually like to follow the business end to all this. If you don't, you don't need to post to this, but I followed this just as I followed Sony's latest profit report (which led to their credit rating being downgraded)

I'll admit I'm not violently anti nintendo, but I'll also admit the cube hasn't done much for me lately (Alien Hominid hasn't been shipped to my town yet... will check again today).

But the main point of my post was who is your better friend? Mario, who sells you a $175 box for $200, or M$ selling a $300 box for $200?

At the end of the day, they're all just corporations anyways. I go where the games I like are, and right now that's xbox (and looking at my wall of legit games, at least one person in North America hasn't done the rom box thing yet.. ).

soopafamicom said:

Nintendo has its so-called 'fanboys' because they are the people who know that with each generation of Nintendo consoles they will be getting great games that their fans love,without having to resort to games like GTA which without the violence and so on are really,really poor and very shallow games

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this is exactly what I expected to see in this thread, and it's exactly why I stopped caring about Nintendo and their shitty Next Gen ventures

I'm tired of rehash rehash rehash NINTENDO

You must be one of those people that'll bash anything because it's popular, all the while being nothing more than a dillitante when it comes to gaming

GTA is not shallow (name a game that does the "free roaming" element as good?), MGS is not shallow, yet are attacked because there aren't bright colors and dancing faggoty animals.

Milking the Mario franchise to death is shallow and redundant, yet Nintendo fanbois feel the need to buy them and praise a company for adding a new feature and touching up the graphics. Continuing to praise Nintendo for making games for "gamers" (I guess calling yourself that makes you feel pretty special).

The two best games for the GameCube came from North American developers Retro and Silicon Knights.

Nintendo lost it's way, and I refuse to keep supporting a company that won't take a chance with a new franchise or game (bar Pikmin, which is the only new Nintendo game I think of offhand)

According to MICHELLE PITTMAN, Craig A. Luckenbill paid, back in 2003, $1050 for a gallon of milk from the all-around champion cow, Miranda

http://archives.pottsville.com/archives/2003/Aug/1/E592330A.htm

roke stAr said:

this is exactly what I expected to see in this thread, and it's exactly why I stopped caring about Nintendo and their shitty Next Gen ventures

I'm tired of rehash rehash rehash NINTENDO

You must be one of those people that'll bash anything because it's popular, all the while being nothing more than a dillitante when it comes to gaming

GTA is not shallow (name a game that does the "free roaming" element as good?), MGS is not shallow, yet are attacked because there aren't bright colors and dancing faggoty animals.

Milking the Mario franchise to death is shallow and redundant, yet Nintendo fanbois feel the need to buy them and praise a company for adding a new feature and touching up the graphics. Continuing to praise Nintendo for making games for "gamers" (I guess calling yourself that makes you feel pretty special).

The two best games for the GameCube came from North American developers Retro and Silicon Knights.

Nintendo lost it's way, and I refuse to keep supporting a company that won't take a chance with a new franchise or game (bar Pikmin, which is the only new Nintendo game I think of offhand)

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Name a game that did the "free roaming enviroment thing" as good? How about Zelda.
GTA has been the exact same since its release on the PC. The only thing 3 did was bring it to the third dimension. Those games have so many collision bugs and pop up problems. And the fact that rockstar didnt address any of these issues in Vice City and San Andreas makes the developers look lazy or incompetent. If you take the hooker killing and mass murder aspect out of GTA what do you have? A game that isnt much fun.

MGS is great but the gameplay for these games still also hasnt changed much since metal gear came out on MSX. The only thing Solid did was bring it to 3d. And you could now see how far the guards could see on the radar. The top down perspective sucks. It was fine with Metal Gear 1 and 2. But now that its in 3d it makes it very hard to see whats around you.

Nintendo isnt the only one rehashing shit. But at least with Nintendo people know that they are getting a game that is gonna be fun to play, and isnt filled with bullshit bugs, and has been play tested through the roof.

Mr.Nemoperson said:

Nintendo isnt the only one rehashing shit. But at least with Nintendo people know that they are getting a game that is gonna be fun to play, and isnt filled with bullshit bugs, and has been play tested through the roof.

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The problem is when the same games get released for 2 systems, and this is something Nintendo loves to do.

Release a game, and if it is successful, wait a couple of years, and release it for another Nintendo system.

Regardless if there is a heated debate back and forth based on what games are good, its all perspective really... Nintendo has a proven track record... They make great games... Rockstar has one francise and it is damn good too... it all depends on what the indivisual likes... to bash the games nintendo keeps bringing out is somewhat ignorant based on perspective alone. U wont even try them anymore because they have the big N brand on them... they are good games, millions of dollars in sales cant be wrong... its not the shit that lucas arts keep bringing out... with a hit and miss ratio on the starwars licence... Its the licence that gets peoples attention due to it being famous or whatever.. but it is the constant consistency of the experince that keeps people coming back. Nintendo is holding up the cube right now with its shoulders alone. And that is one hell of a feat... And when it comes down to it...everything is a rehash unless it is a untried idea. Anyways ill keep supporting the systems that i think are great... and that includes the ps2 and the cube... all comes down to the games.

Mushiki said:

The problem is when the same games get released for 2 systems, and this is something Nintendo loves to do.

Release a game, and if it is successful, wait a couple of years, and release it for another Nintendo system.

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Same game as in Mario64 to Mario Sunshine? I dont see the difference what Nintendo does with their games and what Rockstar does with GTA. Both franchises have evolved to 3d and both havnt changed much over the years. The only franchise that I can think of that isnt really guilty of rehashing is the SaGa games by Square. And thats cause they make it a point to screw around with the gameplay mechanics as much as possible.

Or same game as in the the zelda compilation discs? Cause i havnt heard anyone complain about having most of the zelda games on one disc.

I guess Nintendo is guilty of porting their games to handheld systems. But again how is that so bad. If you want to play mario 64 (or any number of other classics) on the go now you can.